Topic awaiting preservation: PHP mail function on Dreamhost

Anybody here with an account at Dreamhost that's used PHP's mail function. I'm not quite sure how to set the headers so that the mail gets sent as something besides Unknown Sender.

I know it's a long shot, but thanks for any input.

-Butcher-

using the generic mail function you have some options as the last argument you can make this arg ,"From: Whoever" and it should do what you are looking for.



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Also, the Reply-To: header is useful if you want to say something like "From: Feedback Form", but still be able to reply to an address that was entered into the form....

-jiblet

Thanks guys, but I'm not sure what you mean when you say generic mail function Bitdamaged. Here's the code I'm using

$msg = "This e-mail is from www.mysite.com\n";
$msg .= "Username:\t$username\n";
$msg .= "Password:\t$password\n\n";
$to = "$email";
$subject = "Your Username";
$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: www.mysite.com\n\n";
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);

What am I not understanding?

Thanks
-Butcher-

That's the one.

In the from attribute if you put an email that is the one the mail should regsiter as coming from



:[ Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ]:

Thanks Bitdamaged!

Also note that "Reply-To" field accepts only e-mail addresses, and not URL like you wrote...